Roger J. Higgins was born in England, in the County Cheshire, and emigrated with his parents and younger brother to the United States when he was 6 and 3/4. At the advanced age of ten, Roger taught himself the art of swearing, a skill he found useful in his thirty-odd years of playing rugby, where he was noted for his stone hands, his lack of size for certain positions and lack of speed for all the rest. As a young United States naval officer serving on a guided-missile destroyer many years ago, he also learned that sometimes having fifty-five oaths at your command can be entirely inadequate to the occasion. Roger became a lawyer after retiring from the Navy. After clerking for a Tax Court judge, who taught him the value of telling your story so as to win your reader to your side, Roger worked for a number of very large law firms, eventually becoming a partner at a firm with the grandest bankruptcy practice of them all. Roger continues to practice law at a much smaller and less grand law firm and to write novels to his own taste. He is having a wonderful time doing so.

"Roger Higgins has produced an excellent story, well researched, wonderfully detailed, and totally compelling reading."—Susan KeefeMidwest Book Review

Roger J. Higgins was born in England, in the County Cheshire, and emigrated with his parents and younger brother to the United States when he was 6 and 3/4. At the advanced age of ten, Roger taught himself the art of swearing, a skill he found useful in his thirty-odd years of playing rugby, where he was noted for his stone hands, his lack of size for certain positions and lack of speed for all the rest. As a young United States naval officer serving on a guided-missile destroyer many years ago, he also learned that sometimes having fifty-five oaths at your command can be entirely inadequate to the occasion. Roger became a lawyer after retiring from the Navy. After clerking for a Tax Court judge, who taught him the value of telling your story so as to win your reader to your side, Roger worked for a number of very large law firms, eventually becoming a partner at a firm with the grandest bankruptcy practice of them all. Roger continues to practice law at a much smaller and less grand law firm and to write novels to his own taste. He is having a wonderful time doing so.

"Roger Higgins has produced an excellent story, well researched, wonderfully detailed, and totally compelling reading."—Susan KeefeMidwest Book Review

Roger J. Higgins was born in England, in the County Cheshire, and emigrated with his parents and younger brother to the United States when he was 6 and 3/4. At the advanced age of ten, Roger taught himself the art of swearing, a skill he found useful in his thirty-odd years of playing rugby, where he was noted for his stone hands, his lack of size for certain positions and lack of speed for all the rest. As a young United States naval officer serving on a guided-missile destroyer many years ago, he also learned that sometimes having fifty-five oaths at your command can be entirely inadequate to the occasion. Roger became a lawyer after retiring from the Navy. After clerking for a Tax Court judge, who taught him the value of telling your story so as to win your reader to your side, Roger worked for a number of very large law firms, eventually becoming a partner at a firm with the grandest bankruptcy practice of them all. Roger continues to practice law at a much smaller and less grand law firm and to write novels to his own taste. He is having a wonderful time doing so.

"Roger Higgins has produced an excellent story, well researched, wonderfully detailed, and totally compelling reading."—Susan KeefeMidwest Book Review